To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.